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All Right Now
The surprising strategy for minimizing precooked food waste.
Meet Ann Marie Abraham
Already a stunt pilot, this physics major is setting her sights higher.
by Jill Patton
Your Wisdom in Five Words
Readers submitted more than 300 life hacks. Here are our favorites.
by Kathy Zonana
Body Politics
A culture scholar on beauty as currency and the purposes of plastic surgery.
by Diana Aguilera
What If You Unfriended Facebook?
People are happier, but less informed.
by Melinda Sacks
What You Don’t Know About the New Law Dean
She stood up to sex slavery, censorship and ethnic cleansing. Now her influence is growing.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Westworld’s Wrangler
Lisa Joy was a lawyer with a high-paying consulting job when she got the phone call that changed her life.
by Melinda Sacks
Consider the Artichoke
A pair of botanist-bloggers deconstruct the food we eat.
by Summer Moore Batte
‘This Is Nothing Short of Appalling’
Admissions scheme prompts firing of sailing coach, new safeguards.
by Kevin Cool
Focusing on What Matters
This spring’s admissions fraud scheme poses challenges for higher education.
by Marc Tessier-Lavigne